The following is an archived podcast presented by the Branson and Hudson Foundation for Podcast Recovery.

This podcast is entitled Storytime, Talk of Tales for Tots.

It is the first and only episode of the podcast.

Welcome to episode one.

Children's stories are pure imagination.

A bright, sprightly version of humanity. What if a dish ran off with a

spoon? Some people may call that dumb or lame or dumb or super fucking dumb, but to children's book

writers, that's a great idea. Some people thought that a cow jumping over the moon was corny,

but kids loved it. What if you lived in a world where different animals were constantly talking

to each other? Hey, that's pretty cool. A lot of people may call it a waste of time, but guess what?

They're not here right now. Just us children's book writers.

My name is Gaston Silverton, and I am joined here today for story time.

Talk of Tales for Tots.

I am joined with my two co-hosts, both acclaimed children's book authors, P.B. Sandwich

and Mason O'Hare. Guys, how are you doing? Fabulous.

I'm doing just about as well as my last book, which is just to say, extremely good. I'm feeling

like a New York Times children's number one bestseller. Oh, tell me. How has that been going for you?

I know you had big expectations for that book.

If you want to tell the readers what it's called a little bit about it.

Well, sure.

See, a lot of people don't think that children are sophisticated enough to read the New York Times bestseller list to see which books are popular to then buy those books for themselves.

But I think children are actually quite smart when it comes down to it.

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